cervine

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin cervīnus, from cervus (deer).

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cervine (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 495:
      To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’

Noun

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cervine (plural cervines)

  1. A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 106:
      The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.

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Italian

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Adjective

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cervine

  1. feminine plural of cervino

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Latin

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cervīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of cervīnus